Last week was Thanksgiving, which is my favorite holiday. I love all the food, the desserts, the gatherings, and the reflections on what we are thankful for. It’s a laid-back holiday (at least in my family), and our consumer culture has done little to successfully commercialize it (except perhaps for Butterball!). The very next day, millions […]

A bit over a decade ago, my husband and I became good friends with a classmate of mine and his wife–for the blog, I’ll call them David and Georgia. We spent lots of free time together–everything from watching movies to cooking to running errands together. As you can imagine, when the holidays rolled around, we spent […]